edward weston

"For what end is the camera best used? ...The answer comes always more clearly after seeing great work of the sculptor or painter...that the camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh." -Edward Weston




"Success in photography, portraiture especially, is dependent on being able to grasp those supreme instants which pass with the ticking of a clock, never to be duplicated-so light, balance-expression must be seen-felt as it were-in a flash, the mechanics and technique being so perfected in one as to be absolutely automatic." -E.W.